it's always dark!

I have decided that I hate daylight savings time. The whole thing just doesn't really make sense and honestly, I don't find that having the sun come up earlier does anyone any good. When people really notice the sun (or lack thereof) is in the evenings when they are awake! Why do I need the sun to come up at 5:30am when I am sleeping, but go down at 5pm when I am still awake??? It has been seriously depressing to see the sun disappear at 5pm, although this might have more to do with my rather northern latitudinal position on the globe and less to do with the evil monster that is daylight savings time.

Guess what I saw last night? You'll never guess! "The Sound of Music"! It was on at the People's Opera (the non-serious opera in the city) and Rosalie and her visiting sister were going, so I joined them. We bought standing room places for two euros (love it!) and in return got three delicious hours of the von Trapp family. I didn't realize that it had been translated into German, seeing as the Austrians, Germans and Swiss don't have a frickin' clue about the whole thing, but it has been. I have to say that I enjoyed it thoroughly and would heartily recommend it to those visiting this fair city.

Today my task is to rearrange some lessons in late November so that I can go to Dublin (for which I already have a plane ticket--normally one would arrange time off with one's employer BEFORE making concrete vacation plans, but not me!). I have so far successfully rearranged four out of five, so the trip is on! I am going for Thanksgiving weekend actually, to celebrate a big (but not the biggest) _-0 birthday with Ken, a good friend of mine. He decided to go somewhere and since that somewhere is in Europe, I decided to go too. I was there in October 2000, so I am looking forward to going back and seeing it again.

I started looking at digital cameras online with a set of guidelines that my friend Emmaly provided for me (thank you Em!). Man, there are a lot of cameras out there! And there are so many features on them that I have never even heard of and don't understand (burst mode anyone??). I think I'll take the advice of my digital camera owning friends and buy a Canon. So far everyone I've talked to has raved about the Canon PowerShot cameras. Are there any intelligent objections to Canon out there?